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Very busy people always find time for everything.
Conversely, people with immense leisure find time for nothing.

— Ernest Dimnet The Art of Thinking (1928)

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Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.

What we live by (1932)

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

What we live by (1932)

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.

The Art of Thinking (1928)

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

What we live by (1932)

You are not to disbelieve human science or think human reason invalid except when they venture outside their province.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
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